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Description: | Baluster shaped jug with high rounded shoulder curving inward towards base, with turned, everted flat foot. Wide cylindrical neck pinched to form lip, with strap loop handle applied at base of neck and high waist, ending in a simple scroll at lower terminal. Decorated with applied relief sprigs of two huntsmen on horseback and four pairs of hounds, chasing a hare clockwise around body of jug, rural setting represented by single sprigged oak tree. Three relief plaques applied above this around shoulder, depicting, clockwise from handle: inn sign of two archers in a field; men drinking punch in a tavern; inn sign of bear wrestling a dog. Neck, handle and shoulder dipped in iron-rich dark red-brown slip, lower body a creamy buff colour, beneath slightly lustrous salt-glaze.
Technique: thrown
Technique: applied relief
Technique: slip-coated
Technique: salt-glazed
Material: ceramics
Material: stoneware
jug made in England, United Kingdom, Europe, 1750=1870 (circa), (1923.378). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.2609 | Go to resource |
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